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Premium Member A Miracle
Where the sound of the wind whistled through the cracks in the walls and the door-sills where pots collected rain beneath a leaky roof where...

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Categories: cot, childhood, life,
Form: Haibun



Always Mothers Day
I have borrowed  the first line of this piece from the"unknown scribe" , which I 
read many years ago.... The rest is for ALL...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cot, funny, mother, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flip Flop
This is my black Christmas
I have nothing left to lose
I’m a bare footed white walker with no shoes
It’s okay burly guy don’t cry
I’ve found my...

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Categories: cot, angst, appreciation, christmas, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Comin' Hame - Coming Home -Scottish Dialect
A angry sky, as cauld as Loch Lomon'
fair drew me out from cot o' peat, an' bed.
The wolves wus wailin', an' thund'r respond'd
Ah gather'd tam,...

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Categories: cot, absence, culture, faith, farm,
Form: Terza Rima
Tanka 2 About the Cherry Blossom and Life
on melting snow

first cherry blossom

withers too soon

mum ties pink ribbons

to the white casket




Or

on melting snow


first cherry blossom


withers too soon


mum  unties ribbons


from empty cot-bed





Inspired...

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Categories: cot, bereavement, birth,
Form: Tanka



Hush Hush Sleep Baby Sleep
 Tonight  like all the other nights

I lay down next to her cot bed ,run my fingers through her hair

' Hush Hush ,sleep baby...

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Categories: cot, beautiful, child, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let Me Into Your Heart - Emotive Write
I fell in love with you the second you were born
With light brown hair and sapphire blue eyes
I thought you were perfect!
Over time it became...

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Categories: cot, baby, childhood, heartbreak, love,
Form: Free verse
Ashes
Hell's perpetual fires
Burning up my frenzied desires
I'm gurgling up a rebellion
Can you feel it frothing?

You sure have claws
That scratched my skin raw
The blood is everywhere
Do...

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Categories: cot, death, deep, mystery, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Delusion
“ Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. Jim Rohn “

Relentlessly I pace around the room,
like a caged lion, dreaming of vast forests,
yearning for...

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Categories: cot, angst, anxiety, betrayal, hope,
Form: Free verse
Yoga In Poem - a Novel Approach 01 of Many
Yoga in Poem - A novel attempt 01/ Many

YOGA is a priceless gift given by great ancient Indian 
saints for every human being through Vedas....

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Categories: cot, happiness, health, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Soldier's Regret
I have seen the "corners of the world,"
heard the songs of many languages.
I have helped bring peace from many wars,
and played with the poor children...

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Categories: cot, warsoldier,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member M,I,A,
M.I.A.

There’s a space,     next to me
Where he,              used...

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Categories: cot, conflict, destiny, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Quetzalcoatl's Return
* For Carol Brown's Story Time Contest

Feathered serpent was more than an Aztec legend
Depicted in multihued native art
Sculptures, paintings adorned humid cities
Spiritual sketches messages impart

Quetzalcoatl,...

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Categories: cot, history
Form: Bio
Premium Member The Futility of War
There'll be another empty cot on the camp ground tonight.
Alas, a gallant soldier gave his all in the frightful fight.
His anguished pleas for peace were...

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Categories: cot, war
Form: Rhyme
The Dingledot

Now, can you catch that Dingledot?
I need to get him quite a lot.
He is the only one I’ve got.
You’ll find he’s very hard to spot.

He...

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Categories: cot, fantasy,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs